Fall ‘11
The Memory Issue
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Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
"As the Soviets used to joke about their own politically driven histories, ‘The present we know; the future is certain. Only the past is unpredictable.'"
"Truth is mighty & will eventually prevail": Political Correctness, Neo-Confederates, and Robert E. Lee
by Peter S. Carmichael
"While northerners might appear comparatively apathetic about the memory of the Union cause, white southerners have been tenacious in searching for moral clarity in the past."
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"Personal in My Memory": The South in Popular Film
by some of our favorite writers and filmmakers
with an introduction by Godfrey Cheshire
"We have two imaginary kingdoms. One, ‘the South,' exists primarily in song, oral traditions and folkways, native art and literature. The other, ‘Hollywood,' creates mass-produced audiovisual entertainments for American and world audiences, and develops its own mythology."
Alice Walker on Cold Mountain
Allan Gurganus on Sherman's March
Randall Kenan on Ode to Billie Joe
Kenneth Turah on They Won't Forget and I Was a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
Joe Flora on Sweet Bird of Youth
Andrew Garrison on Midnight Cowboy
Elizabeth Spencer on Intruder in the Dust and The Reivers
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No Sweat: Memories of Southern Appalachia
by Danny Fulks
"Cooney Simms, the grocer, had a big Philco floor-model radio with push buttons and short wave. Neighbors gathered around when Joe Lewis was fighting. And wasn't he always this good giant who whipped Adolph Hitler's man Max Schmeling? Static wasn't too bad; one could hear Franklin Roosevelt's fireside chats if they didn't come on the same time as the Grand Ole Opry."
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Voices from the Southern Oral History Program
Mountain Feminist:
Helen Matthews Lewis, Appalachian Studies, and the Long Women's Movement
from an interview by Jessica Wilkerson
compiled and introduced by Jessica Wilkerson and David P. Cline
"They didn't take us to jail. They pulled us out individually, and the policeman said to me, ‘What would your daddy think if he saw you dancing with a nigger?'"
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Judge Thomas Ruffin and the Shadows of Southern History
by Sally Greene
"Ruffin was ideologically sympathetic to the Confederate cause and remained so to his death. ‘The power of the master must be absolute,' Ruffin wrote in State v. Mann (1829), ‘to render the submission of the slave perfect.' State v. Mann became the most notorious opinion in the entire body of slavery law."
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Hot Springs, Arkansas
by Keith Maillard
"‘Well, of course I remember Pearl Harbor,' my mother says, the tone of her voice adding,What do you think I am, an idiot? She and my grandmother were working in the shop when they heard on the radio that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor. She was five months pregnant with me. It was a Sunday. They'd never heard of Pearl Harbor."
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Catfish and Home
by Josh Eure
"Jimmy ‘Catfish' Hunter pitched for the Oakland Athletics and the New York Yankees and in 1987 was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame-all the while maintaining his small-town farming roots. He played every game with the shotgun pellets from a childhood hunting accident lodged in his foot, and natives imagined he held a major piece of them in his cleats."
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"Big Bone Lick," "Big Talk," and "Flush"
three poems by Robert Morgan
" . . . for ten millennia, the bones
seemed wreckage from a mighty dream . . . "
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